It also, coincidentally, emphasised a particular bit of shitness in the Mac operating system, which was that displaying the contents of a folder was some higher order operation than O(n). This was because of an unfortunate API design choice: the...

It's back to SEK 109 now. Also, not feeling guilty about taking advantage of the fumble because I'd already bought the US edition two days earlier. Time to run diff and see what the result reveals about the minds of...

SPECULATION: Some underinformed PR consultant decides that it would be a good move to trot her out on television. Young, female, good-looking; this can't fail to generate sympathy, YesYes!Unfortunately, the verbal tics she appropriated are instantly recognisable, prompting inquiry into...

So I circumnavigated the EU in the good ship iBooks and checked who had heard of that upcoming book.I have no explanation for the US edition being cheaper than the UK edition in Norway and Sweden. Related to the North...

(Not a typo, but since you mentioned that this section was a rushed last-minute job I'll mention it anyway.)Miriam's front matter character profile wavers a bit erratically between past and present tense....

I claim that the best way of understanding scripture involves filtering it through Dissociated Press.Deep calleth the hair of women, that came to Gibeah the son of Abiathar, and speak unto me, This signs and women, (for so it seemed...

If it turns out that the Wolf Orchestra is actually from yet another timeline, I shall complain about contrived excessive twistiness. :-PMore seriously, what are those asterisks doing in Miriam's character profile? ("But she wasn't expecting them to be expecting...

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My pre-order from Amazon (Kindle format) here in the US seems to have been handled ok so far. I got an email the other day (don't remember exactly when) telling me the release date had been pushed back to 30 October. A minor bummer, but I've still got plenty of books in the backlog to read in the interim. It'll just be a nice Halloween present if that date holds....

It's Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." To start with, world-walking is simply treated as magic. It happens, some people can do, deal with it. By the end of the original set of books, technology catches up with it. The new series expands on the technology side in various ways. I was initially worried it was going the way of midichlorians, but thankfully OGH can write better than George Lucas......

Huh! I didn't know about that. While there won't be a US mass market edition, Tor did say they'd consider a small format trade paperback if sales were good — and first month sales were, indeed, looking good. So maybe this is that....